Biografía:
Mexican painter, one of the most famous muralists of his country alongside Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco. Sequeiros was born in Chihuahua and studied in Mexico's School of Fine Arts and the School of Santa Ana in that same city. He took part in the rekindling of mural painting under the sponsorship of the government to decorate public buildings. He lived in Paris, Barcelona and the United States. He returned to Mexico and organized the first trade union of revolutionary sculptors and engravers. A member of the Mexican Communist Party, he founded the El Machete newspaper and got involved in political activism, a trend he laid bare in his frescos in an effort to spur the struggle for the poor. His paintings stand for a very particular synthesis of futurist, expressionist and abstract styles marked by strong and intense hues.In 1962, the Mexican government sentenced Sequeiros to eight years in prison for masterminding riots of far-left students a couple of years before. The artists were pardoned in 1964. His most monumental works are March of Mankind (1971) done shortly after jail on the walls of the National Museum of History in Mexico City. He won the National Arts Award and the Lenin Peace Prize.
